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hungry

adjective
 
🔊/ˈhʌŋɡri/
🔊/ˈhʌŋɡri/
(comparative hungrier, superlative hungriest)
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  1.  
     feeling that you want to eat something感到饿的
    • I'm really hungry.我真是饿了。🔊🔊
    • She wasn't feeling very hungry.她并不感到很饿。
    • Is anyone getting hungry?有人觉得饿吗？🔊🔊
    • All this talk of food is making me hungry.老这么谈吃的勾起我的食欲了。🔊🔊
    • There were eight hungry mouths (= hungry people) to feed at home.家里有八张嘴等着吃饭。
    Extra Examples
    • We were all ravenously hungry after the walk.我们散步之后都饿得要命。
    • I have a hungry family to feed.我得养活嗷嗷待哺的一家人。🔊🔊
    Topics Feelingsa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
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  2.  
     not having enough food to eat饥饿的；挨饿的
    • Thousands are going hungry because of the failure of this year's harvest.由于今年粮食歉收，成千上万的人将挨饿。🔊🔊
    • Over 850 million people worldwide are hungry.全世界有超过8.5亿人处于饥饿状态。
    • There are tens of thousands of hungry children in this country.这个国家有成千上万的饥饿儿童。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • feel
    • go
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    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    See full entry
  3. the hungry
     noun [plural] people who do not have enough food to eat（统称）饥民
  4. [only before noun] causing you to feel that you want to eat something使人饥饿的；引起食欲的
    • All this gardening is hungry work.这些园艺活儿让人干了肚子饿。🔊🔊
  5.  
     having or showing a strong desire for something渴望得到；渴求
    • power-hungry corporations渴望电力的公司
    • hungry for something Both parties are hungry for power.两党都渴望掌权。🔊🔊
    • The child is simply hungry for affection.这个孩子只不过是渴望得到爱。🔊🔊
    • We like to use small agencies that are hungry for our business.我们希望起用渴望得到我们业务的小型代理公司。
    • hungry to do something Every day they come to school hungry to learn.他们每天上学都渴望学习。
    • His eyes had a wild hungry look in them.他的目光里有一种强烈渴望的神情。🔊🔊
    6. Word OriginOld English hungrig, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hongerig, German hungrig, also to hunger.